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1. General Environment Backrounders: (Category); Created on 14 March 2016
2. Background and reports: (Category); Created on 09 July 2013
3. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... of partial privatization of water services, among other disguised neoliberal measures. It is amid this backdrop that U.S. Ambassador Johnson emphasized his approval of the new appointment to head ANDA, ...; Created on 01 December 2020
4. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... but God wants the salvation of mankind in its entirety, in its daily reality,” he says. “God does not want injustice. The Lord has sent us to work for the Kingdom of God on earth.” Republished from: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/04/06/church-el-salvador-backs-law-declaring-clean-affordable-water-human ...; Created on 08 May 2018
5. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Anna Backmann and Christian Wimberger: CIR People taking part in the delegation from the United States, Canada, France, and Germany together with workers of the organization ADES. El Salvador, November ...; Created on 03 February 2016
6. Protesters back El Salvador for denying gold mining permit: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Stella Dawson, Reuters WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protesters rallied on Monday to demand that a World Bank tribunal reject an international mining company’s claim for $300 million from ...; Created on 17 September 2014
7. BACKGROUND MINING IN EL SALVADOR: (Background and reports ); ... Central American resistance that protects all their shared watersheds. The Mesais fighting back against Pacific Rim and other companies in El Salvador by educating the population around the dangers ...; Created on 23 February 2013
8. Public Citizen Commerce Group Backgrounder: (Background and reports ); Backgrounder CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...; Created on 28 February 2012
9. Background on Mining: (Background and reports ); ... President Funes- his verbal commitment is enough to stop those projects. However, in February of 2010- during the activities for the inauguration of the school year in Sensuntepeque- he promised to back ...; Created on 08 February 2012
10. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... purposes. The genesis of the war-crimes team itself points to a deeper injustice in Salvadoran society. Although the UN attributes 85 percent of the crimes committed during the civil war to the US-backed ...; Created on 06 April 2023
11. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... wear white shorts. They're surrounded by police officers with assault riffles. Some have '18' tattooed on their backs, signifying they are members of a gang. ‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass ...; Created on 04 April 2023
12. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... victory, back in 2017, when El Salvador’s government announced it would be the first country in the world to issue a total ban on metal mining. For a half-century, the industry had been dumping waste and ...; Created on 03 April 2023
13. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in El Salvador that claimed the lives of 75,000," explained the organizations. "The victims of crimes from that war, which saw a U.S.-backed dictatorship and right-wing death squads kill tens of thousands, ...; Created on 20 January 2023
14. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... the Municipal Consultation on Mining petitioned by citizens of our municipality, are facing the undemocratic backlash of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) through a statement dated September 19, where ...; Created on 23 September 2022
15. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... International Treaties signed by Guatemala related to international waters. iii. Likewise, we exhort the government of El Salvador not to backtrack on the prohibition of metal mining in Salvadoran territory. ...; Created on 12 June 2022
16. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...; Created on 29 June 2021
17. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... who promises to redistribute wealth, took a slight advantage over Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular). Peru is a country with 32 million inhabitants. The Peruvian currency fell back to a record low, weakening ...; Created on 08 June 2021
18. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... backing that mining companies in Guatemala have long enjoyed. Early on the morning of May 21, nearly 40 police patrol trucks, including an anti-riot unit, showed up outside the mine gates where community ...; Created on 07 June 2021
19. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to protect the rights of Indigenous communities, and the commission retracted it in 2011. https://cnca-rcrce.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JR-Backgrounder-ENGLISH.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1yK83wtnIk25AaXha29gP00DC0voO93Gaq5l462xei8QjI_fOpvgmZKv4 ...; Created on 11 May 2021
20. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... with the Mexican government. Seventy percent of foreign-owned mining companies operating in Mexico have their headquarters in Canada, and the Canadian embassy in Mexico City has repeatedly backed controversial ...; Created on 07 May 2021

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